riposter

French

Etymology

From riposte +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.pɔs.te/

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Verb

riposter

1. to retort

   Near-synonym: contre-attaquer

2. (fencing) to ripost

Conjugation

Conjugation of riposter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	riposter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ripostant /ʁi.pɔs.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		riposté /ʁi.pɔs.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	riposte /ʁi.pɔst/	ripostes /ʁi.pɔst/	riposte /ʁi.pɔst/	ripostons /ʁi.pɔs.tɔ̃/	ripostez /ʁi.pɔs.te/	ripostent /ʁi.pɔst/
	imperfect	ripostais /ʁi.pɔs.tɛ/	ripostais /ʁi.pɔs.tɛ/	ripostait /ʁi.pɔs.tɛ/	ripostions /ʁi.pɔs.tjɔ̃/	ripostiez /ʁi.pɔs.tje/	ripostaient /ʁi.pɔs.tɛ/
	past historic2	ripostai /ʁi.pɔs.te/	ripostas /ʁi.pɔs.ta/	riposta /ʁi.pɔs.ta/	ripostâmes /ʁi.pɔs.tam/	ripostâtes /ʁi.pɔs.tat/	ripostèrent /ʁi.pɔs.tɛʁ/
	future	riposterai /ʁi.pɔs.tə.ʁe/	riposteras /ʁi.pɔs.tə.ʁa/	ripostera /ʁi.pɔs.tə.ʁa/	riposterons /ʁi.pɔs.tə.ʁɔ̃/	riposterez /ʁi.pɔs.tə.ʁe/	riposteront /ʁi.pɔs.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	riposterais /ʁi.pɔs.tə.ʁɛ/	riposterais /ʁi.pɔs.tə.ʁɛ/	riposterait /ʁi.pɔs.tə.ʁɛ/	riposterions /ʁi.pɔs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	riposteriez /ʁi.pɔs.tə.ʁje/	riposteraient /ʁi.pɔs.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	riposte /ʁi.pɔst/	ripostes /ʁi.pɔst/	riposte /ʁi.pɔst/	ripostions /ʁi.pɔs.tjɔ̃/	ripostiez /ʁi.pɔs.tje/	ripostent /ʁi.pɔst/
	imperfect2	ripostasse /ʁi.pɔs.tas/	ripostasses /ʁi.pɔs.tas/	ripostât /ʁi.pɔs.ta/	ripostassions /ʁi.pɔs.ta.sjɔ̃/	ripostassiez /ʁi.pɔs.ta.sje/	ripostassent /ʁi.pɔs.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	riposte /ʁi.pɔst/	—	ripostons /ʁi.pɔs.tɔ̃/	ripostez /ʁi.pɔs.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “riposter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.